Appeal No. 1997-1317
Application No. 08/371,995
Strauch, which state that the prior art system described in
United Kingdom patent specification Nos. 671 461 and 671 464
"is a radar system intended for locating any moving body and
hence has a panoramic field of view, whereas the device
accoring [sic] to the invention has a sectional view which is
directed towards a specific known, moving target" (col. 1,
lines 62-67). While it is true Strauch does not use the term
"radar" to describe his device in this passage or anywhere
else in the specification, we agree with the examiner that his
device clearly employs radar, which, as the examiner notes
(Answer at 5-6), is shorthand for RA(DIO) D(ETECTING) A(ND)
R(ANGING). Strauch's abstract describes the invention as2
"[a] radio range measuring apparatus" and Strauch's claim 1
recites, inter alia,
[a]n apparatus for measuring the range and
the recessional or approach speed of a
target comprising means for generating a
radio signal, means for frequency
modulating said radio signal . . . to
produce a linearly frequency modulated
radio signal, means for transmitting said
frequency modulated radio signal toward
said target, [and] means for receiving the
2 The American Heritage Dictionary of the English
Language 1075 (New College ed. 1975).
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